About Cecilie Starin — San Francisco Bay Area Interior Designer

Cecilie is the owner of Cecilie Starin Design Inc., a full-service interior design firm, whose projects are primarily high-end residential in San Francisco, Marin County, Napa, and the Peninsula.

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Cecilie brings the eye of a painter to her projects. For her, every room is a still life. She combines elements that create a look that is refined yet fresh; the studied timelessness of comfortable modern classicism.

Cecilie Starin trained to be a fine art painter at the University of California at Davis under revered California artists Wayne Thiebaud, Bob Arneson, William Wiley, Roy De Forest and Manuel Neri. She received her BFA from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena where she studied graphic design and illustration. Later she attended the University of California at Berkeley Interior Design Program and focused her study on architecture and interiors.

Cecilie brings her extensive training in fine arts, decorative arts and fashion design to each of her interior design projects. Cecilie’s love of architecture, applied design and travel inspires her to seek an eclectic mix; a global style of comfortable modern classicism. She combines natural, mid-century, and industrial elements with objects and furniture from Italy, France, England, Middle East, and Asia. She juxtaposes contemporary with classic, primitive with the exotic; industrial with refined and East with West. She develops interest through shape, proportion, contrast, and texture.

Cecilie and her work have been featured in multiple print and online publications, including California Home and Design, Luxe Magazine, San Francisco Chronicle, Gentry Design, CasaSugar, Rue Magazine, Traditional Home Magazine, Paper City, Marin Independent Journal, among others. Cecilie was awarded and designed rooms for the San Francisco Decorator Showcase (2006, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2015). She was also awarded and designed a room for the 2012 Marin Designer’s Showcase.

Cecilie is the owner of Cecilie Starin Design Inc., a full-service interior design firm, whose projects are primarily high-end residential in San Francisco, Marin County, Napa, and the Peninsula.